Metacetera, and a good day.
February 22nd, 2007What do I have to say? Apparently not much well-formed, possibly interesting, publishable, and “on my mind when I’m in the mood to blog” for the last month or so. This is not a rare condition. I have several friends who blog/LJ/(myspace/whatever, but I don’t do those) who post even less often than I do. This is not a ping — everyone should blog at their own pace — but I had some strange ideas about blogging improving my writing, being able to find something to write about a few times a week, and generally getting better at freezing thoughts into words. No luck.
Occasionally, I think of bowing out officially like my high school chum A.J. just did. It’s preferable to leaving a dead blog hanging out on the blogrolls of the vainly waiting (Hmmm, godot.blogspot.com? of course someone else has thought of that), but I don’t think that I’m done for good (which is for the best, because another high school friend linked to me recently and bowing out now would be poor timing 
). A belated welcome to Laura’s friends!
Yesterday was good enough to write about. It was Grace’s birthday; she’s 4 now, which puts here in the range of “kid”, no qualifiers necessary. No “baby”, “toddler”, not even “preschooler” really. Just “kid”. I’m already kidding her about getting old
To celebrate, I blew off work (which is always a good start to the day), and we all took the bus down to the Minnesota Children’s Museum. We split into two groups so the kids could explore at their own pace. Grace and I hit the Bob the Builder exhibit, then the Earth World. Then my phone ran out of battery, and we took a whirlwind tour of the rest of the museum trying to find Jess and Arlo. That’s when I ran into another long-lost friend from high school, who was there with her daughter. We actually managed to chat and catch up a bit in between chasing after kids.
We found Jess and Arlo back at Bob the Builder, and traded kids for a while. Things got a bit blurry at that point (Arlo’s good at that), we probably switched kids a couple more times, and then finished the museum trip playing with elaborate golf ball contraptions. I had to be reminded that this was a children’s museum a few times…
To top it all off, we hit a nice candy store on the way back to the bus stop, and brought home a couple pounds
February 23rd, 2007 at 8:52 am
I realize you may not get this, but most lj comments are emailed to you, so even if you don’t check this, you still get my email. Right? Or do you not have that option set up? Oh geez, now I am all paranoid and going to your site….[treks over]….
Ahh here we are. Okay, as I was saying — 1. who did you run into at the musuem?
2. You have exactly the right idea of blogging. It’s different for everyone — there are some people that only write in their space like 3 times a year — but you know, it’s still three more times than I would normally hear from these people, two if you count the hand scrawled signature on their Christmas cards as “contact”. I think that is the mail point of blogging, why people do check up on it — because it’s like a surprise letter. Anyway. You’ll find in the end that more people would complain about it if you stopped altogether than if you only wrote in a few times a year.